niranjan wrote:The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
-----Thomas Paine
very similar to the famous bahai quote
"the world is but one country and mankind its citizens"
-Baha'u'llah
reference: Last sentence on page 250
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/g ... html#pg250
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh